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Office use only
Consent Number: 23-11103-1.0
Job Number: 10657
Date Received: 10 February 2023 – separated from application 21-05080-2.0 received 26/11/2021
Document Number:
New/Renewal/Change: Replace
Resource Consent Application - Discharge to Water or
Land
Application Purpose: New consent Replace
Online reference number: CA230215570
Completed on: 10 February 2023
Online application terms and conditions are
and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape,
common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on
their interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2022-2023 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or
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Office use only
Consent Number: 23-11102-1.0
Job Number: 10657
Date Received: 10 February 2023 – separated from application 21-05080-2.0 received 26/11/2021
Document Number:
New/Renewal/Change: Replace
Resource Consent Application - Discharge to Water or
Land
Application Purpose: New consent Replace
Online reference number: CA230215531
Completed on: 10 February 2023
Online application terms and conditions are accepted?
be implemented in the 2022-2023 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may
by an existing consent or the subject of
a separate consent application?
Yes
Please provide details Consent 3369-2 has authorised the take and use of up to 5,200
l/s of water from the Manganui River for hydro-electricity
generation purposes.
Existing dams/weirs generally do not need a resource consent if they are less than 3m high, do not restrict fish passage and
the upstream catchment is less than 25ha. If a dam is to be constructed it must also meet other standards relating
devices. However, it is noted that this is excluding losses that may be
occurring as the cooling water is discharged via the spray nozzles.
Physicochemical and ecological monitoring did not note any problems in regard to the abstraction of water
from the Kaupokonui Stream for cooling water and general purposes, from site discharges to the
Kaupokonui Stream, or in the Waiokura or Motumate Streams from the discharges of wastewater to land on
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the Company’s farms.
Please provide details Consent 6390-1 authorises the impounding of water behind a
small weir on the Motukawa Race.
Existing dams/weirs generally do not need a resource consent if they are less than 3m high, do not restrict fish passage and
the upstream catchment is less than 25ha. If a dam is to be constructed it must also meet other standards relating to
environmental effects during construction. Please refer to Rule 59 of the Regional Fresh Water Plan. or contact the Council for
details
3110 or consents@manawaenergy.co.nz
Location: Motukawa Power Station, Motukawa Road, Ratapiko & Mangaotea
Aqueduct, Mangaotea Road, Ratapiko
Consent No: 3369-3.0
Application lodged: To take and use up to 5200 litres/second of water from the Manganui River
for hydroelectric power generation purposes
Consent No: 3371-3.0
Application lodged: To divert and use stormwater run-off and the entire flow of various unnamed
watercourses draining into the Motukawa Race and into Lake